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ARCHIVE OF PAST BRIEFINGS

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September 10, 2024 ❧ Kamala finally has policies, Louisiana's prison rodeo, and Macron puts the French far-right in power

 

Plus: The GOP spreads malicious anti-migrant lies, Jill Stein kicked off the ballot in Nevada, an anti-landlord activist runs for office in Australia, and Burmese communists protect elephants

 

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September 6, 2024 ❧ Half of U.S. elections have one candidate, socialists on trial in Florida, and India threatens Wikipedia

 

Plus: Russia dumps truckloads of money into right-wing YouTube, another blow to the Internet Archive, Santa Maduro, and Soviet space tortoises!

 

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September 3, 2024 ❧ Labor news spectacular!

 

The latest from workers’ struggles in the US, UK, Namibia, Sri Lanka, China, Israel-Palestine, and Australia - plus songs, poems, and MUCH MORE!

 

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August 30, 2024 ❧ Kamala wants to build the wall, huge reforms in Mexico, and the ACLU sues over campus Palestine protests

 

Plus: New data on police violence, RFK abducts a dead whale, and a “suspicious incident”

 

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August 27, 2024 ❧ Biden’s phony fossil-fuel numbers, Kentucky prisoners hack their tablets, and a “right to disconnect”

 

Plus: Rent control in Mexico City, Israel destroys a historic mosque, and armadillos always have EXACTLY four babies

 

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August 23, 2024 ❧ The DNC snubs Palestinian speakers, Ron DeSantis loses big, and the Ukraine war spills into Africa

 

Plus: RFK Jr. drops out, a landlord tries to extort a dead woman, and Swedish crows collect cigarette butts

 

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August 20, 2024 ❧ Labor & Palestine at the DNC, Missouri funds anti-abortion groups, and Mexico's “dirty war”

 

Plus: Remembering Phil Donahue, Purdue Pharma, Perdue chicken, a parliament fight in Turkey, and a bird with a massive mouth

 

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August 16, 2024 ❧ Kamala's price gouging plan, middlemen killing Alabama pharmacies, and new elections in Venezuela?

 

Plus: The wonders and horrors of “Grok,” Liz Truss gets ambushed with lettuce, and frogs and tarantulas are friends

 

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August 13, 2024 ❧ Extreme heat kills 47,000, “No Tax on Tips,” and Greg Abbott’s horrible new hospital policy

 

Plus: Ukraine enters Russia, J.D. Vance does drag, and you can now buy "Seagull Insurance"

 

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August 9, 2024 ❧ Kamala scolds Gaza protesters, a national tenants' union, and trans rights in Nepal

 

Plus: How to fight Wall Street with a cello, LA's homeless deaths, free diapers in Tennessee, AIPAC buys another primary, and a house fit for a mouse.

 

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August 6, 2024 ❧ Tim Walz gets the VP nod, racist riots in the UK, and climate denial in Congress

 

Plus: A bear cub, a bear market, landlords make the heat crisis worse, a police “surveillance tower,” and some truly excellent Chinese animal names

 

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August 2, 2024 ❧ Harris abandons progressive policies, the Amazon Labor Union gets new leadership, and the IMF is meddling with Egypt again

 

Plus: Climate protests in Uruguay, Elon Musk wants to fistfight Maduro, and... can chimps talk?

 

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July 30, 2024 ❧ New Israeli war crimes, Kamala's VP search, and climate protestors take on J.D. Vance

 

Plus: New York bans graphic school-shooter training, Venezuela's disputed election results, and the sharks are on coke now

 

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July 26, 2024 ❧ Police murder Sonya Massey, J.D. Vance attacks the "childless," and Netanyahu comes to town

 

Plus: South Africa's new climate law, an important request from the Starbucks workers' union, and swimming armadillos

 

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July 23, 2024 ❧ Heat wave voters, Biden bows out, Anti-whaling activist arrested

 

Plus: Des Moines cracks down on the homeless, Netanyahu goes to Washington, U.K. votes on child poverty, and beekeeping dogs!

 

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July 19, 2024 ❧ GOP vs. Weather, LA Sheriffs Gangs, and Biden's limp rent control policy

 

Plus: Samsung on strike, New reports that Biden may drop out, proposed Supreme Court reforms, and more wombat butt facts!

 

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July 16, 2024 ❧ Trump gets shot, J.D. Vance runs for VP, and police body cams are a fraud

 

Plus: A Kenyan beekeeper fights deforestation, China holds its big economic meeting, and leeches can jump now. Oh dear.

 

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July 12, 2024 ❧ Furries vs. fascism, Eric Adams' $1m trash can, and private equity may be a bubble

 

Plus: New York may be competitive in 2024, Trump may have a "secretary of retribution," new reporting on Gaza, and incredible swimming lions!

 

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July 9, 2024 ❧ Victory for French leftists, the Gaza death toll may be under-reported, and LA's homelessness failure

 

Plus: You can buy bullets in a vending machine now, Iran gets a new president, and there are MANY kinds of "fancy pigeon."

 

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July 5, 2024 ❧ The Biden train wreck continues, the Tories get routed, and Jeff Landry is cool with AI deep fakes

 

Plus: Some 4th of July wisdom, the Heritage Foundation gets scary, and the bees are back in town!

 

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July 2, 2024 ❧ The Supreme Court gives presidents immunity, Gavin Newsom gets "tough on crime," and the French far-right scores another win 

 

Plus: India's draconian new penal code, Nigel Farage becomes a sex symbol, and what's wrong with alley cats anyway?

 

 

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June 28, 2024 ❧ Biden's debate debacle, Bowman felled by dirty politics, and another coup attempt in Bolivia

 

Plus: Flipping off the cops, Kenya in revolt, some more mostly awful Supreme Court rulings, and how much fish can cats lift?

 

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June 25, 2024 ❧ Julian Assange goes free, SCOTUS on trans rights, and a big golf protest

 

Plus: The end of InfoWars, water is woke now, and Przewalski's Horse makes a triumphant return

 

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June 21, 2024 ❧ The IRS lets rich people off the hook, Italian Pride reclaims "frociaggine," and Louisiana puts the Ten Commandments in school

 

Plus: Norfolk Southern's toxic cloud spread across the land, Europe kept Sudanese refugees in danger, an Ohio man throws Filth Cans, and the search for the world's gayest animal!

 

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June 18, 2024 ❧ The U.S. military's secret anti-vax campaign, Trump's awful idea about tariffs, and South Africa's new government

 

Plus: John Fetterman drives like a maniac, Florida Republicans ban a book about book bans, and clownfish change their gender.

 

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June 14, 2024 ❧ SCOTUS rules on abortion and unions, Tennessee's prison labor scandal, and Wallace & Gromit get political

 

Plus: New York might ban masking, Hakeem Jefferies declares war on NY socialists, the EU punishes Hungary's cruelty to migrants, and an antelope with a floppy nose!

 

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June 11, 2024 ❧ Leonard Peltier's chance at freedom, California's free grocery store, and worrying gains for the European far right

 

Plus: New York scraps traffic reform, the UAE supports violence in Sudan, Friedrich Engels rolls in his grave, and spiders are mostly harmless. 

 

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June 7, 2024 ❧ Bird Flu, Biden stops asylum, and the TRUTH about the Epoch Times

 

Plus: Texas builds its own stock exchange, more hulking police vehicles, how the U.S. right is pushing hate in Africa, and giant pangolins are back!

 

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June 4, 2024 ❧ China's diabetes cure, elections in India and Mexico, and Mr. Netanyahu goes to Washington

 

Plus: Alabama is hiding death-penalty records, North Korea sends "filth balloons" flying, and Corgis are the new greyhounds

 

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May 31, 2024 ❧ Convict Trump, the Collapsed Gaza Aid Pier, and Workers vs. Dollar General

 

Plus: Americans clamor for climate accountability, South Africa holds its elections, Biden considering a dangerous escalation between Ukraine and Russia, and chickens are on the rampage!

 

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May 24, 2024 ❧ Outrageous CEO Pay, spying on protesters, and Florida's "Freedom Summer"

 

Plus: What would Trump's deportation plan actually look like?, the Supreme Court upholds racial gerrymandering, microplastics in your balls, and a bird you ought to know about.

 

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May 21, 2024 ❧ The U.S. accuses a Chinese family of spying, Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC, and Assange wins in court

 

Plus: Adorable polar bears, a crippling cheese addiction, prison labor in the food system, and Louisiana schools somehow get even worse

 

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May 17, 2024 ❧ The feds interrogate a historian for his Palestine views, union busting in Alabama, and the truth about "woke" colleges

 

Plus: Clearing up the confusion about the Gaza death toll, Tony Blinken's embarrassing jam session, some boring headlines from foreign newspapers, and thieving foxes 

 

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News Briefing | May 14, 2024

May 14, 2024 ❧ Virtual DNC, Germans storm a Tesla factory, and Republicans for child marriage

 

Plus: NYPD cracks down on smoke shops, Milei's anti-LGBTQ policies, a bill to send protesters to Gaza, robo-dating, and a micro mouse

 

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The archive of briefings up to May 10, 2024 can be found on Substack. 

 

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